R help - Oct 2007 - Fonts do not display properly in R 2.5.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Dear All

I posted a similar question quite some time ago, but that was on an old
OS and an old version of R.  This time I have RHEL 4, which is still
supported as an OS, and R 2.5.1 which is not *that* old.

My sessionInfo() gives:
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27) 
i686-redhat-linux-gnu 

locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_GB.U
TF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-
8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_ID
ENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices"
"utils"     "datasets"
"methods"  
[7] "base"     

other attached packages:
DetectiV 
   "1.1" 
> plot(1:10,1:10)
Results can be seen here:
http://detectiv.sourceforge.net/out.jpg

I suspect I do not have the right fonts installed that R uses by
default....

Any ideas?

Thanks
Mick

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This looks like what happens when you use a UTF-8 locale and don't have 
Unicode X11 (meta-)fonts installed.  Try running in LC_CTYPE=en_GB: if 
that works you will both have a workaround and know where to look for a 
solution.

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, michael watson (IAH-C) wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I posted a similar question quite some time ago, but that was on an old
> OS and an old version of R.  This time I have RHEL 4, which is still
> supported as an OS, and R 2.5.1 which is not *that* old.
>
> My sessionInfo() gives:
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27)
> i686-redhat-linux-gnu
>
> locale:
> LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_GB.U
> TF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-
> 8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_ID
> ENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices"
"utils"     "datasets"
> "methods"
> [7] "base"
>
> other attached packages:
> DetectiV
>   "1.1"
>
>> plot(1:10,1:10)
>
> Results can be seen here:
> http://detectiv.sourceforge.net/out.jpg
>
> I suspect I do not have the right fonts installed that R uses by
> default....
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Mick
>
> The information contained in this message may be confi...{{dropped:16}}